Secretary tries to disqualify journalist after a plan on Houthis

United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said “no one was exchanging messages about war plans” when questioned by journalists about the revelation that the magazine’s chief editor The Atlantic He obtained access, by mistake, to a conversation group with Donald Trump government officials discussing attacks against the Houthis in Yemen.

“He is a supposed highly discredited journalist. His career is based on repeated farce,” Hegseth told reporters.

High Trump government officials debated confidential plans of attacks on the signal chat at the signal, encrypted messaging app, and, by mistake, included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. The Atlanticwho released the messages.